A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

And then there’s Sceptobius lativentris. Parker’s research revealed that the adult beetles turn off their ability to produce ...

New research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) illuminates new details about Thetis cells that will support ...

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact, Homo sapiens might still face extinction, because the social networks ...

Oxygen fills the air today, but for most of Earth’s early history it barely existed. Scientists say the atmosphere did not hold steady oxygen until about 2.

Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts ...

Studying the shape of tissues and organs is critical to understanding how they are formed. Embryonic development happens in ...

Earth's biosphere is brimming with symbiotic relationships: from bacteria that became our cells' mitochondria, to mycorrhizal fungi that help plants ...

Yet kratom’s advocates, while favoring more robust regulation of their product, say the legislation disproportionately ...

In the first demonstration of pretend play in a non-human, the ape favoured a cup filled with imaginary juice over one with ...

Apes, like humans, are capable of pretend play, challenging long-held views about how animals think, a new study suggests.